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...France, a submachine gun the Resistance, and a star the Compagnon de la Liberation, the elite order of Free France and Resistance fighters. A small outhouse (cabinet in French) means membership in De Gaulle's personal office staff, a mask means espionage work during World War II. A motorcyclist symbolizes trips to Colombey to see the general, and a hand grenade membership in the R.P.F. Why the grenade symbol? "Because the R.P.F. aimed to blow up the Fourth Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Brotherhood | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...whose tormented self-quest has made him a patient in a mental institution. George Voskovec plays his psychiatrist and all other speaking roles in a virtuoso acting stint. In pursuit of "psychodramatic therapy," doctor and patient enact Holbrook's life until he winds up as a daredevil motorcyclist in an act called ''The Flying Saucers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Murky Way | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...motorcyclist was seriously injured near Cambridge Common yesterday morning when he rammed the back end of a truck as it was turning on to Waterhouse St. from Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cyclist Injured | 10/24/1961 | See Source »

...light had just begun to creep down Georgetown's N Street when a motorcycle messenger clattered to a stop beneath Jack Kennedy's shuttered window. Awakened by the noise, the President-to-be rose, looked out, grimaced and went back to bed. A little later, the motorcyclist returned, and Kennedy called down to the Secret Service man on guard and asked for quiet. The guard shooed the driver away; but soon newsmen began to gather, and Kennedy abandoned his bed, snapped on his light and got dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The 35th: John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

Bark Is Worse. In Auburn, Me., after being told by an angry motorcyclist that a dog had bitten his tire, Policeman Robert Vaillancourt investigated, pigeonholed the complaint when he discovered that the dog was toothless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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